Powering The Future of Farming with AD
Start Date: 31st August 2011
Finish Date: 31st August 2011
31st August, Reaseheath College, Nantwich, CW5 6DF. Entrance via B5074
10.30 am - 2.00 pm
Entrance - FREE, and FREE lunch. Preregistration is required.
Join us for a discussion on the potential for AD to produce energy and profit, as well as how AD can be integrated across the farming business. Guest speakers will share their views on how AD and ultimately resource efficiency can play a significant role in securing long term financial future of farming. Speakers will be followed by a guided tour of Reaseheath’s newly built demonstration anaerobic digestion plant that will be used to support interested parties in the uptake of AD.
Programme
10.30— 11.00 Tea/coffee and exhibition viewing
11.00 — 12.15 Programme of Speakers
12.15— 14.00 AD Plant Tour & Lunch
Guest Speakers
How new technologies & resource efficiency can ensure the farming business will remain competitive — Tim Bennett (Dairy Co Chairman)
Opening dialogue to barriers and maximising your returns from renewables — (NFU Northwest Representative)
Design criteria and feasibility of on farm AD — Russell Mulliner (Marches Biogas, AD plant design and construction)
What the data gathered from Reaseheath’s AD plant can tell me — Chris Dakin (MD of Gas Data)
Experiences of an AD operator — Colin Rank (Kemble Farms, AD operator since 2008)
Digestate and compost use in agriculture field experiments 2010-2014 - Dr Chris Wood – (Earthcare Technical, WRAP Coordinator)
For directions to Reaseheath College, click here.
To register your place call us on 01270 613 195 or provide your details quoting “Reaseheath AD Discussion” to hub@reaseheath.ac.uk or The Enterprise Delivery Hub, Reaseheath College, Nantwich CW5 6DF.
